This was an international engagement session.  If I remember the story correctly, Laura is from Brazil, and now lives in Canada.  Steven is from Canada and is out in the Bay Area for work temporarily.  Our paths collided at Gray Whale Cove Beach in Pacifica.  Images by the Bay Area Engagement Photographer Scott Mosher.

We all came to the beach expecting the nice valley weather we had been having, which was around 70-80 degrees.  Driving through Pacifica it was nice and warm, but once I got out of the tunnel on Hwy 1 I was greeted with fog, clouds, cold, and A LOT of wind.  When I mean a lot of wind, I’m talking wind that blows the sand so hard it scraps your skin.  During our engagement session on the beach we were able to capture a variety of images from climbing rocks, laying in the sand, and me getting nice & dirty.  When I pulled up to the parking lot and got out of my car at In n Out burger after I shook my pants and  I swear half the beach sand came out.

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Images by the Bay Area family portrait photographer Scott Mosher of the Kunz family at Sanborn County Park.  We spent a little over an hour at the park having their family portraits done at various locations around the park.  I love this park and its a great location for portraits (or a picnic).  Its off Hwy 9 and is sort of in the middle of nowhere.

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This was the 2nd coldest portrait session I’ve done.  I believe it was around 15 degrees or so and we spent a little less than half the time outside.  The coldest was the next night when I did a quick mini session of my sisters family on their backyard ice rink.  That portrait session was 5 degrees.

I met up with a few people for the sole purpose of me trying out some new stuff.  I wanted to push myself a little bit to build on what I had learned over the past year, which was a ton.  Some ideas we were not able to do due to the fact we wanted to get out of the cold!

We met up at City Creek Center, which is across the street from the Salt Lake City Temple.

Images by the Salt Lake City portrait photographer Scott Mosher.

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Images by the San Jose Engagement Photographer Scott Mosher.  I had the chance to photograph Sabrina & Randall for their engagement portraits in the Alviso & the Downtown San Jose areas.    It worked out perfect since I was looking for a couple to try some ideas out, and they were in need of some engagement photos.

We started off their engagement portrait session at the Alviso Marina/County Park.  We walked around a few different areas both on the dirt paths and on the boardwalks.  After a little while there we headed over to the Marina for some final engagement photos on the marina itself before heading out to Downtown San Jose for the remainder of their session.

In Downtown San Jose we ended up going to the Plaza de Cesar Chavez and the Academy of Arts building.

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I got a call asking if I could be a kids birthday party photographer for Bens party a couple weeks go and once I checked my calender I realized I was 2nd shooting a wedding that day.  After I got the details from the family about the party I realized I would be done in time to make the wedding.  And the party was on the way to the wedding in the first place!  So I was admittedly overdressed for the occasion but it was an awesome party.

The party was put together by Kids Posh Parties who handled getting the games, table settings, pretty much all the decorations.  They did a really good job running the games, playing with the kids, and the decorations were FANTASTIC.  They had a “Cars” themed kids birthday party setup and I didn’t realize how much “Cars” party stuff there was in existence!

Also Joanna’s Face Painting was there painting the childrens faces.  She was very quick and the faces looked fantastic, which you will see in the images below.

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LDS Wedding Photography by Scott Mosher of Suzy & Steven at the Oakland LDS Temple.

The weather forecast for the day Suzy & Steven got married kept changing.  Early in the week it was supposed to have a 50-60% chance of rain Thurs – Sunday.  I checked Thurs morning and it changed to sunny all weekend.  Sunny enough I took the family to the Oakland Zoo Friday.  Saturday the weather called for partly cloudy until 2pm, and then a 30% chance of rain, and cold.  I came up with my assistant Joe expecting cold weather.  By the time the couple came out of the Temple at 1, I had my shirt sleeves rolled up and wishing I had brought some sunscreen.

We started off with the usual candids of guests before the couple came out of the Temple.  Then as the couple came out we have fun getting candids of them greeting everyone.  We spent a little over an hour photographing the formals on the steps and then took the bridal party out for some other fun photographs.  We wandered around the upper terrace for a little bit as well as on the bridges that are on the Temple grounds.

Thanks to Joe for coming out and assisting me at the wedding.  You also got some great shots from the day.

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Images by the San Jose family portrait photographer Scott Mosher of the Barney family at Sanborn County Park in Saragota, CA.  I was introduced to the Kissingers by my wife & they mentioned they’d love to have some family portraits done.  We headed up to Sanborn County Park in the hills above Saratoga in the San Francisco Bay Area for their session.  The park has tons of grass and trees, and I think is a great place for portraits.

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I was asked by another Bay Area wedding photographer Sam Hassas (who I’ve worked with lots) to come and help photograph the wedding of Lauren and Frank.  The wedding was held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

The day started off with me hanging out taking candid photographs of the groom & groomsmen hanging out in their hotel room at the Fairmont as well as getting ready.  We spent the morning hanging out, and these guys were having a great time.  We were able to have some extra time to a good amount of groom & groomsmen portraits before we had to head off to the church.

They were married at the Saint John Vianney Catholic church in San Jose.  The ceremony was well attended by their family & friends.

After we finished the family portraits at the church we all headed back to the Fairmont Hotel for their wedding reception.  I spent most of the reception photographing candid portraits of the guests as well as alternate angles of the main events.

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I was asked by Melania Mahoney, a Sonoma wedding photographer to help photograph the wedding of Jamie & John in Sonoma County at a private residence in the hills above Sonoma/Napa. The wedding was an intimate small wedding at the grooms parents house.  They had done some beautiful landscaping of the grounds and had everything set up for the wedding. It was a photographers dream with the house and landscape looking really good. At night during the reception after the sun went down we had some fantastic and dramatic lighting done on the house, pool, and grounds.

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I second shot this wedding with the Santa Clara wedding photographer Sam Hassas.  We started off at the Hilton hotel in downtown San Jose for the getting ready images.  Then we all headed over to Mission Santa Clara where Diane & Jose had their ceremony and after wedding group formals.

After we finished there we all headed up to the Ranch Golf Club in San Jose.

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